I'm so happy to have found your channel on a freezing cold snowy day in Colorado, USA! I learned some things, and I'll definitely be planting huge sunflowers this Spring. Thank you for sharing everything!
🌻🌻🌻Great job! Thanks for sharing! 🌻🌻🌻 I have a few that are a good 10' and one just might hit 12'! At any rate, they're still beautiful and deliucious! I loved your video!
Absolutely fantastic!!!!! Going to see how tall I can get them with some extra blooming and rooting fertilizer. If I feed it blooming and rooting fertilizer, will it have more blooms with smaller flowers? I just it to grow as tall as possible! Thank you in advance.
Hi there, it won't get "additional" flowers if that's what you mean? It will only have the one sunflower head. But yeah, I'd say feed away. Giant fruit and veg love extra feeds so just test it! Good luck 🙂
You can save the sunflower seeds at the end of just let the birds have them. But yeah essentially they die. I guess you could put them in tubs but because it's such a large thing with a big root system,.the tub would have to be quite large and you'd have to water a lot more
Hi Love your preparations before and after planting, I've been trying to to get over 12 Foot by growing in pots and feeding seaweed etc but only ever achieved over 12 foot once and got to 13' 4" by peeing on it every night after coming back from the Pub so I'm going to a local brewery to get some Hops this year and see if that helps cause that's all I can put the 13' 4" success to.
@@PureExistence1 Hi Sorry for the late reply. Last year was the first year that I have tried to grow a tall Sunflower in a pot or anywhere else for that matter. The Pot I used was 12" Diameter & 14" in depth. The seed was a Mongolian which I started in a Bio-Degradable so as not to disturb the roots when planting on in the main Pot and a lot of gravel for drainage,. I mixed B.F. & Bone, then Later on Chicken Pellets plus Farmyard Manure and finally my Coup-de-Grace I peed on it every night after going out for a few Pints at my Local. This year I have used every imaginable fertilizer going i.e. Seaweed, Chicken Pellets, B.F. & Bone, Potash Granules Slow release Pellets, Manure I have thrown the lot in and mixed altogether but also used Perlite & Vermiculite to make the soil drain well but yet retain moisture. So we shall see what happens. At the present time it's growing as though it's going out of fashion so I'm hopeful of beating last years. Forgot to add after it gets established then the hops will begin after I've had a Pint or two. Best of Luck and keeps us informed of progress.
I’m on my second year with sunflowers and this was very helpful! Both years I thought I was doing something wrong because they are so slow to grow, but now I see it really is a slow grower at first. And I need to fertilize much, much more. Thank you!
Yeah thats it, they take a bit of time at the start. Any giant veg are heavy feeders so they probably can't have too much. Be careful not to feed them when they're small though. Once they're 3 foot ish that's when they'll appreciate the extra
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QUESTION: I will be planting in ground(clay soil) and want to use a solar drip water system (max 1.3L/min). How many liters do you water each plant and how often? I was reading that you should only 'deep' water them once or twice a week. Suggestions are very welcome. Thank you
Nice video. Been gowing giants for years now, my tallest being 11'11". I think ou woukd have got evwn taller if you had left more space between each one, ao they don't compete for nutrients / water . I have limited growing space with right conditions, I am really limited to 2 to 3 giants, this year I have titans and giraffes.
Great video , I grew Mongolian Giants last year and they were 14ft tall , trying the rare Sunzillas this year can’t wait to plant them and see the results !!!
Yes agreed but if you want to start them off early, it's not much use sowing them direct as the frost will get them. They're OK if you don't leave them in the pots for too long
I don't sell them but these were giant sunflowers seeds. So if you want huge ones you'll Nedd the correct seed. Plenty giant varieties around if you give them a google
Very gorgeous plant. My small size black sunflower seed germinated and growing successfully. But my large Grey seeds not germinating which i purchased from market.
Bit late to the party here....thought I'd look on here for how to support my sunflowers to stop them snapping....guess I've done it wrong, I've got 3, about 4ft tall in the same 3ft wife trellis 😂 didn't know you planted them...oops, there's always next year
Me and the kids have just planted seeds and have biggest sunflower challenge. 20 quid for the winners. Doing my research to give me the upper hand haha. Thank for the video
I have been trying two types of sunflower seeds and they never look anything like this. They shoot up as a white worm and just lie there at the top of the soil. Any ideas?
@@TheGreyGardener1990 no they do but it seems like the ”stem” grows up and out of the dirt until it falls over. Should I replant as soon as the green part (which is very tiny) shows?
nice video dude thanks for showing me i planted some yesterday but I am worry they not grow tall my American giant hybrid I planted some I still have seeds I will do that thanks for shereing that’s nice at 5:27
Hi Grey Gardener. Smashing video, so helpful. I'm a new gardener and have my sunflowers started on the warm windowsil in my kitchen. They're about two inches high at the moment 8th March. I have some fibre pots I was thinking of transferring them to when they've grown another couple of inches. Shall I then plant them direct into the ground in the pots in May? Any advice is appreciated.
Love these tips. I'm currently growing my first in a pot. It's 5 weeks old atm and doing well. It's a shame I can't grow in the ground because the only ground soil I have in my garden is in the shade most of the day. Anyway, I currently have a pot about 35cm diameter and 30cm high. Would you recommend a large pot? If so what size? Would it be harmful to transplant again at this stage? It's currently 2.5ft high.
You should be ok to transplant again. They have a large taproot so the biggest pot you can find I'd say. I have no experience of growing them in pots so not sure on size. But bigger the better
@@TheGreyGardener1990 it’s alright! I cut the shorter flowering stems and enjoy them in the windowsill!! Plenty of others veggies in garden 🪴 That’s why videos like yours are so nice!
I’ll try this I’ve been wanting to grow huge sunflowers for ages this year but they’re all quite small although multiheaded I’ve kept the seeds Do you recommend any particular seed sauce for the huge sunflowers
I think I got these from premier seeds if I remember rightly. Skyscrapers these but I know a lot of people grow the Russian mammoth I think the name is
do you have any suggestions on choosing seeds to plant? or do you just plant any seed? i just started growing sunflowers this year and so far i git them to about twelve feet!
Hi, I can't remember exactly when I watered inside and out but my soil was relatively free draining so it wasn't sat in water. If you're worried, I don't think it will do any harm to just water outside the collar
@@TheGreyGardener1990 Thank you for replying. I don't mind them walking in the veggie garden, I just don't want to provide a food source from the chicken pellets.
Not bad really, but when leaves are yellowing from the bottom upward, normally that is the plant moving nutrients from the older bottom to the younger, actively growing leaves and shoots. This doesn't necessarily mean the plant isn't healthy, but it usually does mean that the plant would appreciate a little nitrogen fertilizer. Usually. Try it taking baby steps. Test with a very tough plant you know you can't burn or don't mind over fertilizing. Or just start with a miniscule amount. Fast growing annuals like sunflowers can get by with surprisingly little nutrition, but often will really blow your mind if fed as much as the plant can digest without nutrient burn.
@@TheGreyGardener1990 I've planted a few some are going into the ground and some in pots I've gone for American giant will come back with the results end of the summer ☀️ 👍
U can, but u gotta use at least 20 gallon pots, and make sure to put at least an inch of mulch on top of the soil, that helps tremendously with watering. After you discover how much water a mulch layer saves, you won't go back.
